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A sign announces the opening of Chesapeake Regional Healthcare’s new urgent care and imaging center on Hanbury Road in Chesapeake. The facility pairs walk-in care with on-site MRI, CT, ultrasound and X-ray services.
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Health
A virtual line, rapid scans and same-day results: Chesapeake Regional opens new outpatient facility
Yiqing Wang
Residents in southern Chesapeake and northeastern North Carolina now have a closer option for urgent care and advanced imaging.
Planning Director Tevya Griffin shares initial proposals for the Rent Ready Williamsburg program with city council on July 10, 2025.
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Local Government
Williamsburg to review off-campus rental certification program draft in January
Nick McNamara
Changes made after meetings with residents and landlords; majority don’t feel the program will do what the city intends.
Residents of both Williamsburg and James City County agreed the academic performance of Williamsburg students — who lag behind their county peers — is a problem that needs to be addressed.
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Education News
Most Virginia schools meeting new state expectations, education department reports
Nathaniel Cline
Virginia Wesleyan University President Scott Miller shows off Batten University merchandise in August, when he announced the school would change its name during the State of the University event.
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Education News
Virginia Wesleyan alumni say they were dismissed, ignored during name change process
Jim Morrison
Accounts from Virginia Wesleyan University’s Alumni Council shed light on a name change process that was a closely held campaign, and a culmination of university President Scott Miller’s decade of leadership marked by transformative – and at times, controversial – decisions.
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Virginia Government
Lawmakers consider changes at Virginia’s juvenile justice department
The Department of Juvenile Justice directly oversees the Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center near Richmond, the only state-run youth prison. And across the Commonwealth, dozens of locally run facilities hold minors who have entered the justice system.
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